CONTAINER - video installation created for the LEVEL Centre, Derbyshire, UK. This installation is a part of a process to create a video wall for a touring performance entitled SENSE.
Video is projected from a single projector with the images mapped onto a wall comprised of cardboard boxes. This creates a large 3D environment which can easily be transported to various venues. Images used for the installation relate to our senses - providing a powerful visual key to the performance which does not follow a traditional narrative structure.
The eyes and part
of the face comprise video taken of performer Karla Jones (a member of
the SENSE performance company) and are subject to real time effects
which can be manipulated during the performance. In the example above a
dot map has been applied to the image - turning it into a black and
white image using lines. This can be keyed to take out the black or
white - or blended with over video images to provide composites. The
orginal colour can be faded back in or switched suddenly to provide a
sudden change to the perceived 3D space.
The boxes provide
many opportunities for video mapping - combining images and playing with
physical space. I have used box walls many times over the past 20 yrs
and never tire of the possibilities. Video walls comprising normal
cardboard boxes were used for many Random Line productions and more
recently for the Trajectory Installations.
The SENSE
performance is an unusual project - developing a narrative entirely
using our senses rather than traditional forms of communication. The
production uses no form of normal language, instead presenting
information through touch, smell, sound, image and colour. SENSE will
start touring in May 2016.
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